New Village Report Dorenggre 15th Feb 2023

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COMMUNITY LED LANDSCAPE MANAGEMENT PROJECT (CLLMP)

The Government of Meghalaya with financial help from the World Bank is implementing the Meghalaya Community Led Landscape Management Project (MCLLMP). The project covers the entire state of Meghalaya, and implementation of community-led plans are rolled out in a phased manner throughout the state. The Meghalaya Basin Management Agency (MBMA) will facilitate community-led planning by providing support, technical inputs and funding.

The project is intended to strengthen community-led natural resources management in selected landscapes within the 11 districts of the state. This would be achieved through a variety of planning, capacity building, and on-the-ground interventions to promote the conservation, sustainable use of natural resources, social inclusion and community mobilization; building traditional knowledge and learning, mapping of natural resources management; strengthening the community institutions and creating linkage with financial institutions and community organizations.

The project interventions will include preparation of community led natural resource management plans. The CLLMP has the following three components:

Strengthening Knowledge and Capacity of Communities for Natural Resources Management
Community-Led Landscape Planning and Implementation
Project Management and Governance

The project objective is “to manage and conserve the natural resources, especially forests, soil and water sources, in a manner that supports the financial and physical well-being of communities in the State”

INTRODUCTION

Dorenggre village is situated under the Rongram C&RD block of West Garo Hills district of Meghalaya. The village is about 15 km from the RongramBlock and 13km from the district Headquarter, Tura. The village is under the traditional land owner of A’king Nokma. The total population and the demographic of both male and female of the village is about 524 with 93 number of household. The village Latitude is 25.552549"North and Longitude 90.168208"East.

The total geographical area of the village is around 304.28 Ha with 3.0428sq.Km. The village has large community forest reserved and has a few springs.

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The Village is about 15Km away from Rongram Block and 13 km away from district headquarter Tura. The public transport facilities to and from village is in Auto rickshaw, pick-up and private vehicle. In respect to the Social Mobilization, it wasn’t that difficult to handle the community of this village as they are active and hardworking. Despite of very less facilities available, the community are very keen towards achieving the aims and objectives of CLLMP.

Most of the households are using Woods and very less access to LPG. The community has few facilities such as education, safe drinking water supply, road and access to medical facilities. The village is under Head of village (Nokma). About 81 households still uses woods for cooking whereas about 12 households use LPG.

According to Social Data, Dorenggre village has total no of 93 households with the total population of 524. Out of which are 275 males and 249 are females.

The following is the demographic break up information acquired by the CLLMP team of WGH district.

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Dorenggre Village is still lot to catch up even though it is one of the villages nearest to the Tura town area. Dorenggre village are still into farming which includes agriculture and multi cropping. Unlike any other village’s Areca nut is always one of the most grown cash crops followed by cashew nut, banana, pineapple etc.

There are 82 HH Job Card and 11 HH are Gov’t Service.

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ACTIVITIES

GROUND TRUTHING AND SENSITIZATION PROGRAMME

DPMU team of West Garo Hills visited Dorenggre village for Sensitization cum Ground Truthing. 19^th February 2020.

CASE FINDINGS AND LIST OF NATURAL RESOURCES.

The village has 93 HH with 524 total populations.
The village has Community forest
The village water sources are springs and streams. It has 4 streams and 4springs.
The village has many local tree species such as :-Chram, Bolchim, Tewek, Bolbok, Prap, Achri, Tebrong, Tegatchu, Megong, Gimbil, Snaru, Gambare, Rapang, Sakap, Sambram, Boldak, Bolirong, Siso, Boldureng, Chigambal, Agru, Bolchu, Tetachap, Bolsil, Kilwe, Bolgisim, Agatchi, Agajari, Boldubak, Chidai, Jengjil, Neem
The village Forest has medicinal shrubs/trees such as Gimbil (weakness), Bolanchi (Anaemia), Jengjil (Pagla), Neem (allergy)
Commercially valued Trees/ Shrubs/Plants in forests avaiable in the village forest are Gambare, Siso, Kilwe, Boldak, Boldureng, Neem, Kilwe, Tebrong
The endangered species in Forest (fauna & flora) such as Ampang, Deer
Absence of road
Water scarcity during winter season.

PRA EXERCISE AND CNRM PLAN PREPARATION

The District team of West Garo Hills conducted PRA and CNRM plan on 8^th June 2020 at Dorenggre Village Rongram Block, WGH.

The exercises were conducted by the district team Environment and Field Engineer. The Team informed the community that PRA exercise is to understand and locate the natural resources of the village and plan the activities according to their need. The community had an exercise to plan and draw resource and social map on the same day.

In the exercise of CNRM plan preparation, the community were asked to prioritized the plan /activities and submit the plan to DPMU for 5 years. The exercises were done in the presence of village headmen, VNRMCs and Village facilitators.

Signing of Documents:

As an acceptance and agreement to the project, every member of the village households had to sign green charter on 8^th June 2020 and submitted the Village agreement and Expression of Interest to DPMU.

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On 8^th June 2020, after the ground survey and sensitization programme, the village signed the EOI, VGA and Green charter as a sign of accepting the project. Whereas in regards, to the selection of Village Natural Resource Management Committee(VNRMC) members the Village Executive Committee (VEC) along with entire community carried out the process of selecting 15 chosen members such as 9 Executive members, 3 Purchase committee and 3 Village Community Facilitator .

Listed below are the members of the VNRMC:

Sl No	Name in Full	Gender M/F	Age (in Yrs)	Education	Designation	Occupation	Community	Contact No and email address
1	Chestho R Marak	F	30	Graduate	President	Farmer	Garo	936674640
2	Ebillin Ch Momin	M	45	10^th passed	Secretary	Farmer	Garo	9089448987
3	Killson T Sangma	M	47	10^th paased	Book kepper	Farmer	Garo	__
4	Prindilla Ch Marak	F	49	9^th passed	Member	Farmer	Garo	__
5	Krenjilla R Marak	F	49	Pth passed	Member	Farmer	Garo	__
6	Sangkil A Sangma	F	26	10^th passed	Member	Student	Garo	6009227206
7	Singson T Sangma	M	48	primary	Member	Farmer	Garo	9077292133
8	Salgra Marak		28	12^th passed	Member	Farmer	Garo	9774269257
	Banchi T Sangma	F	35	1th passed	Member	Farmer	Garo	9863285305
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Village Community Facilitators (VCF)

Sl No	Name in Full	Gender M/F	Age (Yrs)	Education	Area of specialisation/ focus (forests, water, soil, accounts, environmental and social safeguards, knowledge management, GIS)	Trained under CLLMP (Yes/ No?) if Yes, date training was received	Contact No and email address
1	Threnine B Marak	M	25	Garduate	M&E	Yes	9366747640
2	Nikrang T Sangma	M	23	Garduate	NRM&GIS	Yes	6909742418
3	Threnine B Marak	M	25	Garduate	M&E	Yes	9366747640

Plan Estimate:

The DPMU team of WGH made an inspection to the proposed intervention sites soon after the CNRM plan preparation gets over along with the district Field Engineer, Ms Nimrica Marak.

PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION

Sl No	Implemented Activities	Name of Site	Work Status
1.	Community Nursery	Gongronggre Ganol Chisam	Completed
2.	Plantation	Rongbilbang	Completed
3.	CC Check Dam	Rongbilbang-1	Completed
4.	RCC Check Dam	Rongal Chiring	Completed
5.	Erosion Control Gabion Wall	Dodinang Chiring	Completed
6.	Spring chamber with trenches	Grengchi Chimik	Completed
7.	CC Check dam	Tebilbal Chiring	Completed
8.	Composting pit	Gongronggre Ganol Chisam	Ongoing
9.	CC Check Dam (Additional)	Bolchim Chiring	Ongoing
10.	CC Check Dam (Additional)	Nachi Chiring
11.	Permanent Community Nursery	Gongronggre Ganol Chisam
12.	Recharge pit	Rongbilbang chiring	Ongoing